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Michelle Obama slaps ‘corporate’ work, ‘fat paychecks’
The Washington Examiner ^ | June 18, 2012 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 06/18/2012 9:51:20 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

First lady Michelle Obama took her inspirational family story on the road over the weekend, telling the graduating class of Oregon State University that having a corner corporate office and a big paycheck isn’t the prize it looks like when entering the job market.

“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others, it’s about how it feels to you,” Obama said Sunday, retelling how she and her brother, Oregon men’s basketball coach Craig Robinson, grew up in a small Chicago home pushed by parents who said “be true to ourselves.”

For both, she said, that meant throwing away their corporate suits and trying something different after realizing what they thought was the American dream.

“After graduating from college, we did everything we thought we should do to be successful -- Craig went to business school, I went to law school, we got prestigious jobs at an investment bank and me at a law firm. We soon had all the traditional markers of success: the fat paycheck, the fancy office, the impressive lines on our resumés. But the truth is, neither of us was all that fulfilled,” said Obama. “I was living the dream, but it wasn’t my dream. And Craig felt the same way, unbeknownst to me.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: Hodar

Well I didn’t get drunk but was working the day they had ceremonies. I never had any intentions of going anyway, had already told them to send it in the mail.


21 posted on 06/18/2012 10:04:02 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Moochelle is the new Freddy the Freeloader.


22 posted on 06/18/2012 10:04:21 AM PDT by crosshairs
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She ought to know what a ‘fat paycheck’ is. She ‘worked’ at a cushy job in hospital administration as the wife of a ‘community organizer’..

Between the two of them holding ‘appointed’ jobs in consequence of their connection to the Democratic political machine, ‘fat paychecks’ were the norm!


23 posted on 06/18/2012 10:05:09 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Revolting cat!
“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others, it’s about how it feels to you,” Obama said Sunday, retelling how she and her brother, Oregon men’s basketball coach Craig Robinson, grew up in a small Chicago home pushed by parents who said “be true to ourselves.”

It's good to be the Queen.

Now hush yo' mouff about all their globe trotting and Wagoo beef meals, lowly serf.

24 posted on 06/18/2012 10:05:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How about all the debt they accumulated until Ayres book about bo en”riched” them. I remember her whining about not being able to keep up with only about a 200 thousand dollar joint income. The nerve of some people is never ending.


26 posted on 06/18/2012 10:06:53 AM PDT by DCmarcher-976453
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I despise her and her commie husband. Normal people volunteer or give e to charity if they feel guilty. These people want to impoverish all of us. They re vile and demented.


27 posted on 06/18/2012 10:09:18 AM PDT by PghBaldy (I eagerly await the next news about the struggles of Elizabeth Sacheen Littlefeather Warren.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Sure, average salary and benefits of private sector workers: $60,000.

Average salary and benefits of Government workers; $ 125,000.

Damn them fat private pay checks and benefits.

Does anybody know a Unionized Public school teacher that makes LESS than $65,000. and has benefits out the wazoo including full pensions at 55 years of age for life?

I hate this lying POS and her switch hitting husband!

28 posted on 06/18/2012 10:09:46 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: TSgt

That’s certainly a fat payoff.


29 posted on 06/18/2012 10:10:00 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Free ThinkerNY
MOOchelle is udderly uninspiring.
30 posted on 06/18/2012 10:11:10 AM PDT by JPG (Don't just talk about it, make it happen.)
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To: DCmarcher-976453

As I recall, her brother was fired by Oregon for stinking the house out and then rehired after Obama sent Stimulus Money to the school.


31 posted on 06/18/2012 10:11:21 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Jim from C-Town
Keep it up Moochie

I saw on Fox Business Wall Street 35 Million to Roomey

4.7 Million to Obama is donations

32 posted on 06/18/2012 10:11:39 AM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"...that meant throwing away their corporate suits and trying something different..."

Like expensive designer clothes and boob belts or travel the world on the taxpayer dime....shame on Michelle Obama! Ms. Obama gets the anti-Capitalism message out loud and clear.

What is really clear is that Michelle is an elitist telling American youth not to try so hard for a rich life like hers, just settle for "Feeling good" will be fine - that is all the success you need, the government will take care of you. A conservative would tell you to go to work and work hard.....you know the rest.

33 posted on 06/18/2012 10:12:24 AM PDT by yoe (Proud to be part of the Tea Party movement.....!!!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
A big corporate payout was sure what she had in mind when she got a $100,000 a year gig at a Chicago Hospital as the wife of an Illinois State Senator - upgraded to $300,000 when he became a U.S. Senator - and the ‘position’ left entirely unfilled when she moved on to become the FLOTUS.

And their payment to her was well worth their money - because whatever she was or was not doing for $300,000 a year (nothing too important as nobody now is currently doing what she supposedly did); they got a HUGE return on investment when 0bama was doling out the money from his “stimulus”.

34 posted on 06/18/2012 10:13:38 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: freedumb2003
It takes association with radical and rich men to become a powerful puppet.


35 posted on 06/18/2012 10:15:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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To: RC2
Boom! And there you have reality in a nutshell. I tell my kids this all the time. "It's not about how special or pretty or deserving you are. It is about how much value you offer to the market.

"If you want to live well, offer more value. Work for what you want and you get to own what you desire." Or as I tell senior management at work... NMFWRE. Not Magically Fixable - Will Require Effort
37 posted on 06/18/2012 10:16:17 AM PDT by Robert Teesdale
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To: a fool in paradise

——It’s good to be the Queen.-——

Some call it “giving back to the community.”

Good and hard, I’d say.


38 posted on 06/18/2012 10:20:14 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
It's like being a pimped out reverend except the public pays your salary.


40 posted on 06/18/2012 10:22:57 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The media ignored the 40th anniversary of Bill Ayers' Pentagon bombing but not Watergate. Ask Why.)
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